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young farmers who have well stored their minds with agricultural 

 literature, and we hope to hear from them. 



I have designedly omitted some things, and probably overlooked 

 many others that ought to be named in this connection, that I 

 might leave some of the time your indulgence has allotted to me 

 in which we may hear from others who can interest you beyond 

 where my slender thread ends. And if the time is still mine, I 

 will yield the floor first to the President of the Piscataquis Central 

 Agricultural Society'-, Director in the Bangor & Piscataquis Rail- 

 road Company, &c., the Hon. A. M. Robinson of Dover ; and 

 after him will call out our County Attorney, A. G. Lebroke, Esq., 

 of Foxcroft. 



Mr. Robinson responded as follows : 



J/r. President, Ladies and Gentleman : — I have to address you 

 this morning without the slightest preparation — I had post- 

 poned until to-day the time for arranging some few ideas, which I 

 had thought might be of general interest, and unluckily, to-day, 

 a crowd of unexpected business has occupied my whole time, 

 till now. Beside this embarrasrnent, I notice a reporter here, 

 an intimation that I am to go upon the record — " a chieVs 

 amang us takin' notes" — a professional gentleman, of the class 

 that we "up-countrj" folks" have an instinctive dread. I notice, 

 further, by the remarks of the gentleman who has preceded me, 

 that I am sandwiched between two of the foremost men of our 

 community. 



1 think it was Bacon who penned the aphorism, " That writing 

 makes a exact man, reading a full man, and speaking a ready 

 man." The gentleman preceding me has written much which has 

 attracted public attention ; and the gentleman who by the pro- 

 gramme is to follow, has a State reputation as a public speaker. 

 Without pretending to be the third person in this Baconian 

 trinity, 1 have still the pleasing duty, in behalf of the Piscataquis 

 Central Agricultural and Horticultural Society — an intelligent, 

 wealthy and vigorous organization, which I have the honor to 

 represeilt — to tender you a warm, earnest, hearty and cordial 

 welcome. 



Presuming, gentleman of the Board, that many of you are 

 strangers, I pi^opose in the first place, a brief introduction to our 

 immediate locality, and then to call your attention to the more 

 general characteristics and resources of the county at large. In 

 performing this duty, I have frankly to notify you in the outset, 



